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Glosso
Glossostigma elatinoides
Family: Phrymaceae
Glossostigma elatinoides was one of the first foreground carpeting plants popularised by Takashi Amano in the Nature Aquarium style. Its tiny spoon-shaped leaves form an extremely low, dense green carpet when grown under high light with CO2. Without strong light it grows upward rather than creeping, defeating the purpose. It is one of the most demanding carpeting plants but produces one of the most pristine, turf-like results when conditions are ideal.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Essential
- light
- Very high (150–250 PAR); will not carpet under low light
- placement
- Foreground carpet
- substrate
- Fine-grain aquasoil; low iron substrate helps prevent overshooting
- growth rate
- Fast under ideal conditions
- propagation
- Spreads via creeping runners
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.0
- nitrate
- <15 ppm
- hardness
- 1–8 dGH
- temperature
- 68–82°F (20–28°C)